Improvement in hand-cultivators



' frame, the iront row being coulters, andthe back one,

" The fore end of the frame is supported on two wheels.

` structions, as fallen vines, plants, &c. I

in g-standards'D D, which slide through lnortises formed l .new

Halimi l (mes i@ f @sind l @time (Cgcsek-e JOHN SCHEIBLIN AND JOHNI-IElTZMAN, OP PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 84,910,

lated December-15, 1868.

IMPROVMEN T IN HAND-CULTVATORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters-Patent and making parl: of thesame.

Our invention is a hand-cultivator for the purpose oi removing weeds,and stirring upand loosening thc/soil between the rows of plants, 86e.

It consists of a double row f cultivators, fixed in a plouglis.

They are so arranged, that those in the hind row shalhwork in a trackbetween that ofthe fore ones.

Both the wheels andthe cultivatois areadjustable vertically, by whichthe depth of cultivating are the height of the frame from the ground areregulated to suit the height-'0f the plants.

' A clearer is fixed to each wheel-standard. Theyproject in front of thewheels, and seive to remove all ob- On reference to the accompanyingsheet of drawings, making part ol this specification- Figure 1 is a sideview;

Figure 2 is a iront view, showing the clearer-sand the method employedfor adjusting the front height of the frame by means of thewheel-standards; and;

Figure 3 is aback View of the transverse plate of the framing and thecultivators, the stilts', or handles, and the wheels, not beingshown.-

' 'Similar letters 'refer to similar parts inthe several' views.' Y :Ais th'e frame of the cultivamr, about 'midway of the ends of which thestilts oi handles B are fixed. .The wheels C C, which carry the fore endofthe frame, turn ori-pins in the endsl of the vertical adjustnear theforeend ofthe frame. y

They are Iliade outwardly curving at theirlower ends to straddlejtherowof plants. v

A slot, a, is formed lengthwise in the upper-endet" each.

A screw-bolt, c, whichpasses transversely 4through the fore-end of the'frame, its ends projecting through Athe slots a, enables-the fore end ofthe frame to be ad justcd vertically..

A thumb-screw, d, ofthe bolt 1:, ti'gl1tens thejnsiandlards to theframe, and prevents them i'oinl slipping.

zA doublerow of cultivawis, e f, is fired' to th,t1a ns verse plate E ofthe ira-me, the front row e being coulvters, and the hind row, plows.

. They are so iixed relativelj to each other that those of the hind rowshall work in a track between those oi the fore row.

YPhe coulters, marked e e?, straddle the row, and severd the root/ swhich extend between the rows, so that the plows, j, cominginnnediateljr after, cannot tear the plants from the ground, byfastening inthe roots.

The coulters e e also sever the roots of thc adjacent I'OWS.

Both`the coulters and the plows are adjustable verf i tically by meansof' the thumb-screws g.

F are clearers, fixed to the standards D.

They are so formed as to take, one in front of each wheelC, and areused, when cultivating vine-growing greunchto remove from the path ofthecultivatorsuch Vines as lie close to`the ground, or have been beaten4down by storms, Spc.

A pole, G,- s coupled to the front of the cultivator, by means ofthestandard H.

The c ultivatcr can b managed by two boys, one

pulling on the pole and the other holding the stilts, or handles, savingthe cost of a man andhorse.

the productiveness of the ground. i

The stilts, or handles, and the wheels at the iiont give the operatorpower to work with the greatest nieety, and when it 'becomes clicked, tothrow it out of work.

It can be nianufactiu'ed of a variety of lsizes adapted'.

to the various kind'sofplautsyand systems ofhusbandry.`

What we claim a-s our` invention, and desire to se'- cure by'LettersPatent, is

1. The coulters e, plows j, and the transverse plate E, when combinedand arranged as 4shown and (lescribed.

2. The i'alneA, stilts B, transverse plate E, standards D D, pin c,wheels O, 'clearers F, coulterseaud theiplows f, when'coinbined andarranged as shown and described.'

In testimony A\ vl1ereof,:we hereunto sign ournaine;`- to.- thisspecification, 'in presence of -two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN SCHEIBLEIN.

.JOHN HEIClZB-IAN. AVlitiiesses: p

FRANCIS D.`Pasron1ns,v i

